let's go back here and today's a exciting episode we are going to replace a lot of the doors in this
house dolls are easier than you think that's what I learned towards the end of my apprenticeship
see toward the end of my apprenticeship I hadn't hung doors yet from what I heard it was difficult
that's what I thought I started off hanging prehung doors those are doors they have the
leaf like this but the door jamb is already hung around it and that's much easier you just have to
get the hinge side good screw that in and then use the jamb as a sort of guide for the rest of
the door and I've done that in other videos but today we're putting the leaf on old door jambs
these are upside down for panel doors that small panel is usually at the bottom and the tall panel
who's at the top these are hollow core doors MDF skin that's made to look like a mortise and tenon
door so most of the strength is in the frame but then wherever your handle is they add an extra
bit of timber whenever I'm doing tours I'd like to get the long drill bit like this is around about
170 with this on it that just helps when you're trying to get into these corners you kind of
tapped into the corner right there and sometimes you end up rubbing the door stop and you don't
let's put the hinges back in so I know that the exact place are they going to be in
just gonna trim the door lengthways and height-wise it's not exact old houses
seems to be a cleaning operation that have just sprung up so smoke Oh time
so that first door I had to trim the top and the bottom and I trimmed both the top and the bottom
because because those doors are hollow call the bed and that goes around the perimeter of it is
only about 20 mil thick if I had taken off 15 mil for the bottom then I would only have a 5
mil bit of timber inside that door so I took a little bit off the bottom a little bit off the
top and I got my size shakeela will drive up the road for a for a coffee and this is point ship
we were working today point ship is like just to the west of the central city here in Auckland it's
gone up in value quite a lot over the last few decades because of that proximity to the centre
the guy next door actually watches the channel I met him this morning and he's renovating the
house next door and that's common like with I'll go to a job and there'll be a building
next door or two builders just within eyesight happens all the time especially around this here
right because I'm getting paid as a professional carpenter I feel sufficiently so I'm doing all
the steps together I'll take this one off cut it sighs now another thing to confirm before
taking a door off the lock side of the door has a sticker on it and this door has a sticker on this
side that's the hinge side this door wants to go back there but it also can't do that because this
here has an angle on it see the light through there this point here is further earned than
this point and then that point shouldn't hit the jamb that's the idea of the angle so by
flipping this door around it makes the angle go the wrong way now I could just cut a new angle
but then I'm taking a significant amount of width off the door and the gap would be HUGE if I do
that I'll mention the problem to the owner and he might have got it made so the lock block is
actually both sides and perhaps a manufacturer just didn't put the sticker on it but we'll see
the heights good I can lock the hinge location here's another way that you can mark the hinge
you just put the hinge out here like that but the door up until it make sure the heights good
looks good to me maybe I'll take a little bit off there cuz I'm feel the door touching it
so I know that that's not going to go up anymore no just flip the end right there and go up there
all right now that we have marked a few of the doors we can get the router out this is
the wide door in the bedroom so I might not router this well because the gaps already
booked but I will use my marks to you know give the exact hinge location for the ones
that I am router in I have this little router bit here see that there's got a
little wheel here and the blade here and I'll show you how that works in a stick
now I wish I could tell you where this way to buy this hinge jig but this guy this guy here he made
it for me is this logo there I've had it for over a year but I haven't really used them like that
I remember when I was working in Edinburgh with my uncle sandy as a mark of success used to talk
about hanging in to us so whenever we see a rich guy driving down the road in a Bentley
or something while we're on our way to work he'd be like yeah he might have that Bentley but can
you hang a door Scott that's the question like ain't her door was the ultimate I can hang a door
perfection perfection oh yeah you might have a
Bentley power but can you hang it all huh can you hang a door
yeah I went into autopilot and assumed that the hinges were the same size but
they were different so now I got to get a builder's best friend out
so what a door hanging tips do have always came to
find more efficient ways or just ways it a more fun even